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+# Third-party license records
+
+The root `LICENSE` contains the WeirdUtils public-domain dedication, but its
+scope is limited to material for which the applicable WeirdUtils authors have
+the rights to make that dedication.
+
+Third-party material keeps its own terms.
+
+## Preserved records
+
+- `libdeflate-MIT.txt`
+  - applies to vendored `src/weirdperformance/libdeflate/`
+  - upstream: https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
+
+- `VanillaFixes-MIT.txt`
+  - relevant to the timer implementation explicitly ported from VanillaFixes
+  - upstream: https://github.com/hannesmann/vanillafixes
+
+## Existing in-tree license
+
+- `../src/dpslog/WeirdDPSMate/LICENSE`
+  - GNU GPL v3
+  - applies to the WeirdDPSMate / DPSMate code as documented by that subtree
+
+## Unresolved / external
+
+The 2026-08-31 audit did not independently establish a project-wide license
+for:
+
+- bundled `src/dpslog/WSBT/` material;
+- `brues-code/UnitXP_SP3`, used as a behavior/formula reference;
+- the externally fetched Codeberg `zhook` dependency.
+
+No license is invented for those components.
+
+See `../THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md` for scope and provenance.